Bohr magneton

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description

The Bohr magneton, named for the 20th-century Danish physicist Niels Bohr, is equal to about 9.274 × 10−21 erg per gauss per particle. The nuclear magneton, calculated by using the mass of the proton (rather than that of the electron, used to calculate the Bohr magneton)…

electrons

…predicted to be exactly one Bohr magneton (eh/4πm, or 9.27 × 10−24 joule per tesla). In practice, this has been found to be not quite right, as, for instance, in the experiment of Lamb and Rutherford mentioned earlier; more recent determinations give 1.0011596522 Bohr magnetons. Calculations by means of the…

magnetic dipoles

…moment of electrons is the Bohr magneton (equivalent to 9.27 × 10−24 ampere–square metre). A similar unit for magnetic moments of nuclei, protons, and neutrons is the nuclear magneton (equivalent to 5.051 × 10−27 ampere–square metre).

quantum electrodynamics

…a quantity known as the Bohr magneton; however, QED predicts that μe = (1 + a)μB, where a is a small number, approximately 1/860. Again, the physical origin of the QED correction is the interaction of the electron with random oscillations in the surrounding electromagnetic field. The best experimental determination…